Children in the wood : being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children ...

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8183.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infanticide--Poetry.

Infanticide.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Ballads.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 28 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : N. Coverly, Jun. printer, Milk-St., [between 1810 and 1814]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Verse of 152 lines; first line: Now ponder well you parents dear.

Followed by eight additional lines of verse entitled: A Word of advice to executors.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 9, presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 22.5 x 19.0 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8183).

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